Eggs are hung from the ceiling, balanced on spinning tops and stacked on top of each other in a series of deliberately perilous contraptions created by industrial designer Liang-Jung Chen.
Entitled The Egg Rack Made a Disclaimer, the project was presented in an exhibition at Gallery Error22 in Tainan, Taiwan and prefaced by a warning to "interact with the egg racks at your own risk". Top image: Rack #03 resembles a rocking chair frame. Above: Rack #05 is an acrylic chute that can hold 10 eggs. Photo is by Aco Hsu The 12 egg holders resemble abstract sculptures – rendered in timber, acrylic or metal – but were designed to be set in motion to test the limits of their stability. In this way, the exhibition acted as a kind of social experiment to gauge people's reactions to the vulnerability of the eggs and explore the different, often contradictory meanings...
